Mariah Carey

On the Official Charts Company's count, Mariah Carey has 24 UK Top 10 singles, three of them Number 1s, and 13 UK Top 10 albums, two of them Number 1s. She also has five BRIT Award nominations, without a win. Mariah Carey's Christmastime concerts bring her back to UK arenas from Friday 27 November to Wednesday 2 December 2026, in Birmingham, London and Manchester.

What is Mariah Carey doing now?

On Monday 21 September 2026 Mariah Carey announced her UK Christmastime nights: three arena shows in Birmingham, London and Manchester between 27 November and 2 December, with DJ Suss One supporting each one. Earlier in 2026, MusiCares honoured her as its Person of the Year at its gala on 30 January, and a week later she sang at the opening ceremony of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.

At the Olympic ceremony, held at San Siro on 6 February, she sang "Nel blu, dipinto di blu (Volare)" and "Nothing Is Impossible", a single from her 2025 album.

What are Mariah Carey's latest releases and shows?

Mariah Carey's latest studio album is Here for It All, released on 26 September 2025. It went to No. 1 on the Official Hip Hop and R&B Albums Chart and peaked at No. 31 on the Official Albums Chart. From 28 November to 13 December 2025 she played Christmastime in Las Vegas, a ten-show Christmas residency at Dolby Live at Park MGM.

In 2026 she has also returned to two older albums. An expanded 30th anniversary edition of Daydream, one of her two UK Number 1 albums, came out digitally on 17 July 2026, with physical formats announced for 16 October. In August an expanded 25th anniversary edition of Glitter, her 2001 album, was announced for 30 October, led by a new version of "Didn't Mean To Turn You On" featuring Rochelle Jordan.

On 7 September 2025, shortly before Here for It All came out, she won her first MTV Video Music Awards: Best R&B for "Type Dangerous", one of its singles, and the Video Vanguard Award. Three months earlier, on 9 June 2025, the BET Awards gave her their Ultimate Icon Award. Her songwriting had already been recognised in 2022, when she was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

What has Mariah Carey achieved in the UK?

Mariah Carey has three UK Number 1 singles and two UK Number 1 albums on the Official Charts. The most recent of the singles is "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which first reached No. 1 in December 2020 and returned there in December 2022. The other two are "Against All Odds" with Westlife (2000) and "Without You" (1994). Her Number 1 albums are Daydream (1995) and Music Box (1993).

The newest entry among her 24 UK Top 10 singles is "Touch My Body" (2008), and the first was "Vision of Love" (1990). Thirteen of her albums have reached the UK Top 10, most recently Number 1 to Infinity in 2015.

In May 2023 the BPI made her one of the first recipients of its BRIT Billion Award. That is a BPI award for streaming rather than a BRIT Award: at the BRIT Awards themselves she has five nominations, from 1991 to 2006, and no wins. In 2019 the Ivor Novello Awards, the UK's songwriting awards, presented her with the PRS for Music Special International Award.

Why is Mariah Carey so closely tied to Christmas?

The link starts with "All I Want for Christmas Is You", the song Mariah Carey made with her collaborator and producer Walter Afanasieff and released on Columbia in 1994, on her album Merry Christmas. In December 2024 the Official Charts Company named it the UK's most-streamed Christmas song, and in 2023 the US Library of Congress added it to its National Recording Registry.

How has "All I Want for Christmas Is You" done in the UK charts?

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has spent three weeks at No. 1 on the Official Singles Chart, two in December 2020 and one in December 2022. Its 2025 run stopped short of the top: in the chart week of 12 to 18 December it sat at No. 3, with Wham!'s "Last Christmas" at No. 1. In December 2025 the BPI certified it 10x Platinum.

When the song first came out in 1994 it peaked at No. 2, behind East 17's "Stay Another Day". It reached No. 1 for the first time in December 2020, 26 years later, in its 70th week in the Top 40. That is the most Top 40 weeks any song has spent before reaching No. 1, an Official Chart record. Across all its chart runs it has spent 53 weeks in the UK Top 10, and the Official Charts Company notes that it has been in the UK Top 40 every year since 2007.

What record did "All I Want for Christmas Is You" hold in the US?

In the US, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" first reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December 2019 and has spent 22 weeks at No. 1 in all. That total was the record for the most weeks at No. 1 until September 2026, when Ella Langley's "Choosin' Texas" reached a 23rd week, reported on 22 September.

What else has Mariah Carey made for Christmas?

Beyond the song, Mariah Carey's Christmas catalogue includes the albums Merry Christmas (1994) and Merry Christmas II You (2010), and two Apple TV+ specials. Merry Christmas peaked at No. 32 on the Official Albums Chart and is certified Platinum by the BPI, while Merry Christmas II You has never entered that chart. The specials are Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020) and Mariah's Christmas: The Magic Continues (2021).

When has Mariah Carey played the UK before?

Since 2017, Mariah Carey's UK concerts have included Brighton Pride and the Sandringham Estate in August 2025, three nights at the Royal Albert Hall in May 2019, and Christmas shows in December 2017 and December 2018. That makes the three 2026 Christmastime nights her first UK Christmas shows since 2018.

• August 2025: Brighton Pride at Preston Park on Saturday 2 August, and the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Friday 15 August.
• May 2019: three nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London, 25 to 27 May, on the Caution World Tour.
• December 2018: Christmas shows in Nottingham on 9 December, Leeds on 10 December and London on 11 December.
• December 2017: Christmas shows at Manchester Arena on 10 December and in London on 11 December.

Mariah Carey's Christmastime concerts in Birmingham, London and Manchester

The doors and start times below are as each venue listed them on 25 September 2026, and venues can change them.

• Birmingham, Friday 27 November 2026: Christmastime at Utilita Arena Birmingham, doors 18:00, start 19:30, with DJ Suss One.
• London, Monday 30 November 2026: Christmastime at The Arena London, doors 18:30, with special guest DJ Suss One. The venue lists a doors time only.
• Manchester, Wednesday 2 December 2026: Christmastime at Co-op Live, premium doors 18:00, general admission doors 18:30, start 19:30, with DJ Suss One.

The Mariah Carey Christmastime hospitality page sets each arena's own private suites, lounges and dining side by side, from how many guests a suite takes to what it includes. The guide to the three Christmastime shows covers what the show is like and how to get home after each night.

Premium seats and fan packages

At Mariah Carey's Christmastime concerts the word "VIP" covers more than one product: The Arena London uses it for its own hospitality packages, while an artist fan package, where a tour offers one, is a different product. The Christmastime hospitality comparison sets out what each arena's premium options include and how they differ from a fan package.